Bishop James Dillon †

Deceased

Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1758¹		Born
5 Jan 1796	38.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Raphoe, Ireland
5 Jan 1796	38.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nilopolis
22 May 1796	38.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nilopolis
30 Aug 1800	42.6	Appointed	Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland
19 Apr 1806	48.2	Died	Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary for James Dillon
(WikiData: Q6132636)
Bishop James Dillon (born 1758, died 19 Apr 1806) Bishop of Kilmore

Event Place
Birth Place Archdiocese of Armagh

a bishop for 9.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Richard O’Reilly †
Archbishop of Armagh

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Richard O’Reilly † (1781)
Archbishop of Armagh
Archbishop John Carpenter † (1770)
Archbishop of Dublin
Bishop James O’Keeffe † (1752)
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin
Bishop James Bernard Dunne † (1749)
Bishop of Ossory
Archbishop Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy † (1715)
Archbishop of Sens
Archbishop François de Mailly † (1698)
Archbishop of Reims
Toussaint Cardinal de Forbin de Janson † (1656)
Bishop of Beauvais
Bishop Étienne de Puget † (1624)
Bishop of Marseille
Archbishop Jean-François de Gondi † (1623)
Archbishop of Paris
François Cardinal d’Escoubleau de Sourdis † (1599)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
François Cardinal de Joyeuse †
Archbishop of Toulouse

Event	Place
Birth Place	Archdiocese of Armagh

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 311, and Page 352
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 228
b/c2: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1796, Number 30
b: The Irish Catholic Episcopal Corps, 1657-1829, Volume 2, Page 33
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 97, Number 8,271

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